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...Academy of Television & Film in Munich in 1992, Schmid began his career with several short documentaries and TV movies before gravitating towards narrative filmmaking. His first fiction feature, “It’s A Jungle Out There,” (“Nach fünf im Urwald,” screening Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 9 p.m.) casts “Run Lola Run” star Franka Potente as a rebellious teenager who runs away from home to Munich’s big-city “jungle.” Schmid would revisit...
...Ariad Pharmaceuticals, a small firm that was exclusively licensed the patent by Harvard, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the other plaintiffs in the case. In the 1980s, scientists from those institutions discovered a method of treating diseases by regulating the activity of a molecule called NF-kB—a transcription factor involved in protein production. When the discovery was eventually awarded a patent in 2002, Ariad and the three institutions sued Eli Lilly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Evista helps prevent and treat osteoperosis and Xigris treats people with severe sepsis...
...claim the drugs infringe on a patent they were jointly awarded in 2002. The trial began April 10 in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Closing arguments are scheduled to take place tomorrow. The patent covers methods of treating diseases by modulating the activity of the molecule NF-kB, a “transcription factor” involved in protein production. Scientists from Harvard, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute discovered these methods in the 1980s, and the institutions licensed the patent exclusively to Cambridge-based Ariad. The four parties filed suit against Eli Lilly on the same...
...identical batches of herbal remedies, as required by their law. This week the U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit organization, published the first American standards for the potency of nine herbs, including chamomile, feverfew, St. John's wort and saw palmetto. Manufacturers that adhere to those standards can add the letters NF, for national formulary, to their labels...
...longer funny. Signifies Saturday Night Live and Bill Cosby. See also: NF--never funny. Signifies Hogan's Heroes, McHale's Navy, Fish...